Chapter Summaries

Vizet explained to Professor Flitwick how magic could draw on Muggles’ shared belief in scientific theories, and described how wizards could cast it by resonating with that belief. Professor Flitwick understood the new method and asked Vizet to explain how he had cast it.

• Professor Flitwick restated Vizet’s explanation, and Vizet clarified that scientific understanding acted as a key while Muggles’ shared belief supplied the power.
• Vizet compared the magic to Weather Magic, and Professor Flitwick concluded that wizards guided and drew on the power through resonance.
• Professor Flitwick set aside a new batch of letters and packages so he could ask Vizet how to cast the magic.
• Vizet explained that the magic resembled the Patronus Charm because both turned will into power, though this magic drew on belief beyond the self.
• Professor Flitwick compared the two spells’ opposite sources of power and said wizards needed to understand themselves and resonate with the wider world.

Professor Flitwick recognized how Vizet’s research made new magic easier to learn and discussed its connection to Ritual Magic and the renewed unity of wizards and Muggles. He urged Vizet to name the magic himself and told him that his own character and love of magic were enough to guide his future.

• Professor Flitwick mastered Vizet’s new magic quickly and praised the clear learning path Vizet had built into it.
• Vizet explained that Luna had helped him see how his magic resembled Ritual Magic, with Muggles’ observations and requests guiding wizards to record magical phenomena.
• Professor Flitwick connected this process to a world where the Statute of Secrecy was no longer needed and asked Vizet to name his magic.
• Vizet promised to give the name serious thought and consider Luna’s help.
• Professor Flitwick told Vizet that, unlike most students, he did not need a profession to define him because his self-discipline, kindness, and love of magic were enough.

Professor Flitwick advised Vizet to follow his interests instead of choosing a fixed profession, and Vizet embraced the idea of becoming a pioneer. At dinner, the professors discussed his future, while Snape’s sharp remark prompted a question about whether he was worried about Vizet.

• Professor Flitwick encouraged Vizet to pursue whatever made him happy and create new possibilities rather than confining himself to one career.
• Vizet said he could be the wind that made the wind chime ring, thanked Professor Flitwick, and refused to handle the letters and packages.
• Professor Flitwick offered to send away Vizet’s invitations and asked him to save a ticket if he visited a Quidditch team.
• At dinner, Professor Flitwick told Professor Sprout and the other professors that he had advised Vizet to become a pioneer.
• Dumbledore, Professor Sprout, and Professor McGonagall praised the advice, while Snape warned that Vizet should not get blown away.
• Bathsheba Babbling asked Snape if he was worried about Vizet, and Snape stayed silent and continued eating.

Harry learned that Voldemort had hidden his survival in a set of amulets, and he and Vizet went to the Room of Requirement to search for one. After encountering Sybill Trelawney leaving the room with sherry, Harry used his connection to Voldemort to summon the room they needed, and its door appeared again.

• Harry learned from Dumbledore that Voldemort had made amulets that would let him survive the destruction of his body.
• Harry and Vizet went to the eighth floor to find the Room of Requirement, where Dumbledore suspected Voldemort had hidden an amulet.
• Sybill Trelawney stumbled out of the Room of Requirement carrying sherry and claimed she needed it to seek inspiration for her Heavenly Eye.
• Vizet told Harry to focus on what he needed and pass the wall three times, and Harry used his connection to Voldemort to summon the room.
• The Room of Requirement's door appeared after Harry had paced past the wall three times.

Harry and Vizet entered the Room of Requirement to find Ravenclaw’s Crown, but Harry’s Summoning Charms failed. Using the connection between his soul and Voldemort, Harry sensed the Horcrux in a pile of clutter and pointed it out.

• Harry and Vizet stepped through the doorway and found a vast room filled with heaps of discarded objects, books, and Potion Ingredients.
• Vizet revealed an image of Ravenclaw’s Crown and explained that Voldemort might have concealed it or protected it from Summoning Charms.
• Harry cast several Summoning Charms, but the Crown did not respond.
• Vizet suggested Harry use the soul-searching approach he practiced for the Patronus Charm to sense his connection with Voldemort.
• Harry felt Voldemort calling him in a gentle yet impatient voice, then pointed to a distant pile of clutter and said the Horcrux was there.

Harry sensed Voldemort’s Amulet and realized that a Soul Fragment from Voldemort was inside his scar, and Vizet confirmed his suspicion. Harry accepted the truth and reaffirmed his resolve to face Voldemort as a duelist, while Vizet’s summoning spell made the Room of Requirement shake as something awakened.

• Harry told Vizet that sensing the Amulet had made him suspect his connection to Voldemort went beyond the prophecy and that Voldemort had left something in his scar.
• Vizet confirmed that a Soul Fragment from Voldemort was inside Harry, and Harry understood why Vizet had taught him Occlumency.
• Harry asked why Dumbledore had kept the secret from him and why Vizet had chosen to reveal it, and Vizet explained that Harry’s progress showed he was ready.
• Vizet reminded Harry that he had chosen to become a duelist without considering flight, and Harry declared himself ready to fight for himself and his parents.
• Vizet cast Ancient Magic: Improved Summoning Charm to call Crown, and the Room of Requirement shook as something awakened.

Vizet and Harry were drawn into a transformed Room of Requirement, where they met Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, former Guardians. Rowena questioned Vizet about his mission, and he declared that Guardians must oppose The Master.

• Harry felt the Room of Requirement tremble, and Vizet realized his Ancient Magic Power had triggered the disturbance.
• The room transformed into a star-domed Round Hall filled with floating plants, portraits, and richly colored fabrics.
• Rowena Ravenclaw sent Harry away, then asked Vizet whether she had treated him inappropriately.
• Vizet acknowledged Rowena's reason for keeping Guardian conversations secret but promised to tell Harry what he wanted to know.
• Rowena confirmed that her Crown had sensed Vizet's Ancient Magic Power and asked him to explain his true mission.
• Vizet said that Guardians must oppose whatever The Master, worshipped by the Isaiah Society, wished to do.

Vizet spoke with Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff after they awoke to discover nearly a thousand years had passed and that “The Master” might descend soon. As they learned about modern Hogwarts and Vizet’s fight against the Isaiah Society, the Founders offered the Hogwarts armored colossi as potential aid.

• Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw welcomed Vizet and realized they had slept for nearly a thousand years.
• Vizet explained that Hogwarts still used the Sorting Hat, drew students from around the world, and had developed without a war damaging it.
• Vizet told the Founders that Salazar had taught him useful magic and introduced himself as Vizet Lovegood.
• Rowena Ravenclaw offered the Hogwarts armored colossi to support Vizet against the Isaiah Society, whose plot to sacrifice a city he had helped foil.
• Vizet said he had received the Founders’ memory and praised its remarkable Alchemy techniques.

Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff warned Vizet that the Isaiah Society remained dangerous despite his victory, then shared intelligence about its Horcrux-creating members. As Helga listed the Society’s historical figures, Rowena suspected Vizet had already dealt with Morgan le Fay.

• Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff cautioned Vizet not to underestimate the Isaiah Society, whose members could survive and regroup after setbacks.
• Vizet took out his notebook as Helga explained that the Society’s core members had created Horcruxes by tearing apart their souls.
• Vizet told Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff that the Slytherin Headmaster had taught him about Horcruxes and that Godric had taught him combat insights.
• Helga Hufflepuff listed historical Isaiah Society members, including Circe, Herpo, Melvin, and Morgan le Fay, whom Merlin had fought for a long time.
• Rowena Ravenclaw noticed Vizet’s calm reaction to the list and asked whether he had already dealt with Morgan le Fay.

Vizet recounted how Morgan le Fay and the Isaiah Society sacrificed two core members to bring down attacks from “The Master” during the Paris Region Incident. Rowena Ravenclaw learned that one of the sacrificed members had been her former student Gregory and struggled to process how Vizet had survived the battle.

• Vizet explained that the Isaiah Society had lured the Guardian to France and planned to sacrifice a city to summon an attack from “The Master.”
• Vizet said Morgan le Fay sacrificed herself to bring down the first attack, which he and the Guardian managed to withstand.
• Vizet named Gregory as the second core member sacrificed, and Rowena Ravenclaw recognized him as a former Ravenclaw Student.
• Rowena recalled Gregory’s talent and pragmatism, then accepted his death as his best ending.
• Vizet said preparations stopped “The Master’s” second attack and left only Herpo the Shepherd with full combat strength.
• Rowena struggled to absorb Vizet’s account and could not settle on what to ask next.

Vizet reassured Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff that he remained vigilant against the Isaiah Society, recounting its failed plots and the allies who helped him stop them. The two founders approved of his cautious efforts, and Rowena said she was proud that he belonged to her House.

• Vizet explained that the Isaiah Society had tried to drown an island with a tsunami and unleash controlled Fire Dragons in a city.
• Vizet recounted how Serena and others helped him survive encounters with the Isaiah Society and avert the Fire Dragon disaster with help from the Magical Congress.
• Rowena Ravenclaw condemned the Statute of Secrecy, while Helga Hufflepuff was struck by how casually Vizet described facing so many Fire Dragons.
• Vizet assured the founders that Serena and the others were still clearing out the Isaiah Society's forces around the world.
• Helga praised Vizet's vigilance, and Rowena thanked him for recognizing the value of her information and memory of Alchemy before expressing pride in his House.

Vizet spoke with Rowena Ravenclaw about his choices, his resolve to protect others, and the perseverance required of guardians. Rowena gave him a guardian’s will to gather others’ wills in the future, then revealed that the girl in her portrait was her daughter, Helena Ravenclaw.

• Rowena Ravenclaw asked Vizet why he had chosen Ravenclaw, and he said he had wanted access to more magical knowledge.
• Vizet told Rowena Ravenclaw that he had found many things to pursue and protect, and promised he would keep fighting even if his magic failed.
• Rowena Ravenclaw described the guardians’ perseverance and created a Silver Thread containing her will for Vizet to use to gather guardians’ wills.
• Helga Hufflepuff urged Vizet not to overlook love as a source of strength, and Vizet promised to remember her advice.
• Vizet asked about the girl in the portrait, and Rowena Ravenclaw revealed she was her daughter, Helena Ravenclaw, who had left and never returned.
• Rowena Ravenclaw blamed herself for Helena’s departure, and Vizet suggested that the Grey Lady had other reasons for not returning.

After the Room of Requirement abruptly sent Harry away from Vizet, Harry searched its dangerous clutter for Voldemort’s Amulet and found it in the form of a crown. He resisted its influence with Occlumency and carried it out, but the Grey Lady appeared before he could reach Dumbledore.

• A black-haired witch sent Harry from the Round Hall back to the Room of Requirement, where Vizet was nowhere to be seen.
• Harry left a magical message for Vizet and navigated hazardous clutter, destroying attacking toothed discs and avoiding splashing potions.
• Harry reached a battered bust and resisted Voldemort’s whispers urging him to put the crown on his head by using Occlumency.
• Harry used a broken chair leg to lift the crown, then left the Room of Requirement to take it to Dumbledore.
• As Harry hurried toward the Headmaster’s Office, Ravenclaw’s Grey Lady appeared in front of him.

Harry retrieved Voldemort's enchanted Crown and argued with The Grey Lady when she tried to stop him. Vizet explained that Tom Riddle had used Dark Magic on it, and The Grey Lady realized what he had done and broke down in tears.

• The Grey Lady confronted Harry over the Crown and demanded that he put it down, but Harry refused and tried to get away from her.
• The Grey Lady repeatedly passed through Harry to stop him until Vizet arrived and praised Harry for retrieving the Crown without touching it directly.
• Vizet told The Grey Lady that Voldemort, whose real name was Tom Riddle, had cursed the Crown with Dark Magic.
• The Grey Lady understood the horror of what Tom Riddle had done to the Crown and began sobbing.

Harry, Vizet, and the Grey Lady cleared up their misunderstanding over the Ravenclaw Diadem, and Vizet told her that Rowena Ravenclaw wanted to see her. The Grey Lady learned her mother had waited for her in the Room of Requirement and prepared to reunite with her.

• Harry impulsively asked whether ghosts could shed tears, offending the Grey Lady and making him suspect the Diadem had influenced him.
• Vizet told the Grey Lady that Rowena Ravenclaw wished to see her, and she eagerly asked whether her mother was waiting for her now.
• Harry realized that the witch he had seen in the Round Hall was Rowena Ravenclaw and recognized the Grey Lady as her daughter.
• The Grey Lady explained that she had withheld the Diadem's whereabouts because students often sought it as an aid to their exams, while Harry and Vizet clarified that they had wanted to destroy Voldemort's Amulet.
• Vizet explained that Rowena had prepared the Room of Requirement for her daughter and had waited there until she fell ill and her soul went into slumber.
• The Grey Lady grieved that she had kept her mother waiting as a ghost, and Vizet urged her to go meet Rowena.

The Grey Lady reunited with Rowena Ravenclaw and confessed how her theft of the diadem led to her death and the Bloody Baron’s suicide. Vizet destroyed the diadem’s evil enchantment, freeing Harry from its influence.

• Vizet revealed the Room of Requirement, and Rowena Ravenclaw welcomed The Grey Lady back as Helena.
• The Grey Lady apologized for stealing the diadem, and Rowena comforted her before asking whether she had encountered the Baron.
• The Grey Lady explained that the Baron killed her after she rejected him, then killed himself in grief and rage.
• The Grey Lady admitted that she had later revealed the diadem’s hiding place to a student who corrupted it into an evil artifact.
• Vizet engulfed the diadem in flame, causing black liquid to seep out and lifting the burden Harry had felt.

Vizet and Harry restored Ravenclaw's diadem and returned it to Rowena Ravenclaw, while Helga Hufflepuff explained that destroying an amulet usually required dangerous Fiendfyre. The Grey Lady regained her living appearance as the Round Hall grew dim and decayed, and Rowena and Helga said they expected to be free of their restraints soon.

• Vizet repaired Ravenclaw's diadem, and Helga Hufflepuff explained that ordinary fire could not destroy an amulet and that Fiendfyre was dangerous to control.
• Harry declined to try on the diadem, and Vizet returned it to Rowena Ravenclaw.
• Harry noticed that The Grey Lady had regained her living appearance while the Round Hall's decorations and plants withered.
• Rowena Ravenclaw explained that Helena's return had changed the hall, and Helga Hufflepuff said she valued a lively atmosphere over a beautiful house.
• Vizet offered to use Ancient Magic Power to help, but Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff declined and said they would soon be free of their restraints.

Harry learned from Vizet how Ghosts came to be and why the Grey Lady regained her living appearance through Rowena Ravenclaw’s magic. Meanwhile, Snape returned to a desolate Durmstrang Castle, where Barty Crouch Jr. escorted him to meet Voldemort.

• Harry asked Vizet whether he could tell Ron and Hermione about meeting Rowena Ravenclaw, and Vizet said he could.
• Vizet explained that Ghosts remained behind after refusing death and that the Grey Lady’s obsession had faded after meeting her mother.
• Vizet told Harry that Rowena Ravenclaw’s magic restored the Grey Lady’s appearance but bound her to the Round Hall.
• Harry wondered whether Voldemort could become a Ghost, and Vizet doubted Voldemort would have the chance.
• Snape returned to Durmstrang Castle and found it eerily silent and Barty Crouch Jr. changed.
• Barty Crouch Jr. told Snape to come meet the master.

Snape followed Barty Crouch Jr. through Durmstrang and saw how the Dark Lord’s magical teachings had driven students mad. Barty Crouch Jr. revealed that he had proposed sharing the teachings, and Snape recognized his efforts to make amends, though the Dark Lord still wanted Hogwarts more than Durmstrang.

• Snape and Barty Crouch Jr. walked through Durmstrang’s ruined corridors, where Snape noticed signs of violence and bloodshed.
• A bloodied student tried to cast Avada Kedavra at Barty Crouch Jr., who deflected the curse, stunned him, and ensured he would not be injured by debris.
• Barty Crouch Jr. ordered a professor to expel the student, claiming that only worthy wizards should remain at Durmstrang.
• Snape questioned Barty Crouch Jr. about the deranged students, and Barty admitted that he had suggested sharing the Dark Lord’s understanding of the “Path of Magic.”
• Snape suspected Barty Crouch Jr. regretted his suggestion and asked what he would do as student numbers dwindled; Barty replied that the academic year was nearly over and the Dark Lord wanted Hogwarts more than Durmstrang.

Snape learned that Voldemort planned to return Lily Evans to him as a reward, and he suspected Voldemort had discovered his lingering feelings through a seer’s Heavenly Eye. He suppressed his anger and prepared to act as Voldemort expected when he faced him.

• Barty Crouch Jr. questioned Snape’s loyalty to Voldemort, and Snape declared he would do anything Voldemort required.
• Barty Crouch Jr. told Snape that Voldemort’s reward was the thing Snape desired most and had once destroyed: Lily Evans.
• Snape wondered why Voldemort had changed his mind about Lily and recalled that Dumbledore had repeatedly refused his attempts to meet.
• Snape suspected Sybill Trelawney’s Heavenly Eye had revealed his conversation with Vizet to Voldemort, prompting the reward.
• Snape forced down his anger and resolved to prepare a reaction that would match Voldemort’s expectations.